mah-jongg
麻将,麻将牌,麻雀虽小五脏俱全
Definitions
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- : a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 dominolike pieces or tiles marked in suits, counters, and dice, the object being to build a winning combination of pieces.
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- : to win a game of mah-jongg.
Examples
“Dean and I (I love mah baby),” read the caption to one she posted on October 2012.
Food and travel writer Ann Mah has written about a year spent on her own in Paris, while her husband is off to Iraq on business.
Putting greens, pizza ovens, and mah-jongg tables, she offered.
Grace grew restless, her father anxious, and Tilly kept asking, "Whar is mah boy?"
But dey can't hang me, no sah, dey can't, 'cause mah man croak two weeks later.
You have to go fru de brush and bushes, but it's a powerful big nest, Mah'sr Harry, right in de holler ob de tree.
"Ah kin lick any three Neboes wid mah toes an' teeth," he would boast in religious snobbery.
Klootsmah or Kloots-a-mah plural Klootsmuk the Indian word for "married woman" but used in the legends for girls as well as women.